This week the doc community lost Kartemquin Films founding partner Jerry Blumenthal. At the Kartemquin website Tim Horsburgh shared an encomium for Blumenthal, while Manori Ravindran wrote on his passing for Realscreen.

In distro news, Realscreen’s Adam Benzine reported that Bond/360 picked up US rights for IN COUNTRY from directors Mike Attie and Meghan O’Hara. At Indiewire, Shipra Gupta reported that DO I SOUND GAY? from director David Thorpe had been picked up for North American distribution by Sundance Selects.

In a piece for Indiewire, Anthony Kaufman took a look at the history and influence of CPH:DOX.

The POV Hackathon 7 yielded another set of prototypes for interactive projects, which you can find here.

Back at Realscreen, Adam Benzine had a piece on how Laura Poitras made CITIZENFOUR.

Writing for the New York Times, Stacey Anderson looked at the film PULP: A FILM ABOUT LIFE, DEATH & SUPERMARKETS.

Realscreen’s Etan Vlessing reported on the Indian docs this year’s Hot Docs festival was set to highlight.

At Indiewire, Eric Hynes covered a Savannah Film Festival panel with eight filmmakers explaining how they became documentarians. Also writing for Indiewire, Greg Cwik had a piece focusing on advice for doc filmmakers to take before starting production.

This week Whitney Dow, the creator of THE WHITENESS PROJECT, had an AMA on Reddit that you can check out here. New Hampshire Public Radio also interviewed Dow for a segment that can be found here.